christian amaya garcia              

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Smack Mellon, Studio Resident ‘24-’25
christian amaya garcia



exhibitions

selected work

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b. New York, NY
based in New York


Education


2023       Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME

           BFA, Lehman College, Bronx, NY


Group Exhibitions


2024       an image of your labor hovers over me, curated by Qingyuan Deng, New Uncanny Gallery, New York, NY

           Porous Alternatives, curated by Eunsoo Yi, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

           Internet Personality Quiz, curated by Karla Zurita, Pop Gun, Brooklyn, NY

           How did we get here?, organized by the Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Artport Kingston, Kingston, NY

           Liberation Echos, organized by the Black Student Union at Cooper Union, Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research,  
           Brooklyn, NY

           Spiral Time, curated by Alex Santana, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

           It’s too late to think, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2023       Process Reimagined Building it Up to Tear it Down, curated by Rachel Sydlowski, Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos                Community College, Bronx, NY

           Flat File 2023, PeepSpace, Tarrytown, NY

2022       Grady Alexis Gallery Retrospective, Grady Alexis Gallery,  New York, NY

           Ascendance, Artisroom, New York, NY

2021       A Change of Struggle, Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

           Spring Exhibit, Fable Jones Studios, Brooklyn, NY


Awards, Fellowships & Residencies


2024       2024-2025 Artist Studio Program, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

           Civil Society Institute Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2023       Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME

           LES Young Artists of Color Fellowship, FABnyc, New York, NY

2022       Mellon Foundation Transformative Learning in the Humanities Student Scholarship, New York, NY

           CUNY LaborArts, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

           Design Fellowship, Sara Little Turnbull Foundation, Bronx, NY


Curatorial Projects


2024       Lost in Translation, video screening for Conference Call: Moving Image, Skowhegan School of Painting &  
           Sculpture, hosted at Olympia, New York, NY

           Zine Collaboration with Ally Caple, organized with the New York Public Library Picture Collection, Robert    
           Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and Skowhegan School of Painting Sculpture, New York, NY

Press

2024       Cao, Lucia. “Hauntological Reverberations,” Whitehot Magazine. December 14, 2024

           Wang, Xeuzhu Jenny. “New Uncanny’s Haunting Reveries.” Impulse Magazine. December 19, 2024